Posted on 07/06/2013 1:48:47 PM PDT by don-o
Someone on the board asked about a threat / promise to destroy the pyramids
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Wasn't it in the Middle Ages that the limestone facing was mined from the pyramids for use in Egyptian buildings?
Of course they are! Their silent stones will not submit to the Rule of Allah! Therefore, they must be destroyed! Just like those timeless and wonderful Hindu sculptures that were erased from human history by the total idiots who can't seem to extricate themselves from the seventh century who are running the Taliban. Not to mention their moronic, "stepford wife" followers....
[Idle question: Is there any institution in Egypt right now that can protect the Sphinx from salafist desecration??? As a sometime student of Egypt's storied, magnificent past, and a possible future tourist, I would like to know the answer to that question.]
From my POV (FWIW), the Salafist and Muslim Brotherhood state of culture resembles most closely that of a pack of wild dogs — that most "unclean" of animals in the sight of Islam. Only dogs treat their bitches better.
Thanks for your great observations, Conspiracy Guy.
They have off and on tried their best to do just that. The pyramids at one time were covered in a flat mortared covering of white stone. The visual effect of this must have been dazzling. That covering was removed over time and the material used to construct mosques and other buildings in the new Muslim capital of Cairo. Even with all that and centuries of neglect until Napoleon’s invasion the great pyramids at Giza have remained largely intact.
Piece of cake for their pos moon god allah...and his pedophile raping illiterate prophet / S
I hope that all the relics, large and small, in Egypt are protected by someone. Under Morsi I think they would have been in danger at some point. Islam is as fond of destroying symbols as they are destroying non-believers and each other. The Sphinx is surely a tempting target for their hatred. I can’t answer your question. Who knows what is next.
That would require much more work than they’re willing to do.
They need to pop a cap on that one.
The sphinx is really interesting. There’s speculation it was there before the pyramids. I’m one of those who believe that the Sphinx came first, the pyramids later.
The first historical record we have of it is in 1400 BC - and even then, they didn’t have a clue.
protect those Pyramids
Sorry to change the subject but did you hear about the destruction of a Mayan Pyramid by some real estate developers. I caught a snip on the radio yesterday and forgot to check it out when I got home. I guess I should go see what I can find. The Sphinx is the most interesting monument in Egypt to me.
However the civilization that built the pyramids is long dead. The current arabs inhabiting Egypt were foreign invaders.
Mark
“One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.” - Joseph Stalin
I wholeheartedly agree. The geological and architectural evidence is conclusive.
Even a mainline Egyptologist (I can’t remember his name, the book is around here somewhere) points to that New Kingdom copy of an Old Kingdom record — which states that Khafre repaired the Sphinx — and the fact that the causeway to the Khafre pyramid was built to avoid the Sphinx enclosure, and attributes the Sphinx’ construction to Khufu. Right idea, but wrong date.
Another suggestion has been that Khufu’s successor — Djedefre, elder brother to Khafre — built the Sphinx, but there’s pretty much no ancient evidence for that, and Djedefre started construction of his pyramid at Abu Roash. The site is now protected, but in recent centuries the unfinished structure was carried off by the camel-load to build stuff in Cairo.
> IMO, the pyramids would survive a nuclear explosion.
If the nuke were inside a pyramid, no. But outside, damage certainly, but your remark reminded me of an old saying in Egypt, “Man fears Time. Time fears the Pyramids.”
It’s a fascinating thesis just how far back it goes. Something to consider that if it goes as far back as 5k, we are closer to Moses than we are to the builders of the Sphinx.
Bulldozers destroy 3,200-year-old Mayan pyramid in Belize
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3019196/posts
Mayan pyramid bulldozed: Ancient pyramid flattened by construction crew
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3019851/posts
Gee, I wonder how much exertion and time it would take to destroy the pyramids? ...one man with hammer and chisel, a trillion years? 500 men with hammers and chisels, 1 billion years? 50,000,000 men with hammers and chisels, a thousand years? OK, it’s a deal, but you have the spread the rubble far and wide...
That’s already happened. This is the high water mark for Salafism in the ME. Egyptians, aren’t Saudis, aren’t Turks, aren’t Iranians, and so on and so forth. The Egyptians had a taste of life under the Salafists and they don’t like it. Neither do the Turks.
If they get their way via repression, they lose. If they don’t, they lose.
I figure it that way too, CG.
That is to say, I agree with your observation that "Islam" [you can read a whole bunch of other deranged, dysfunctional human attitudes under that head, too, including Western Left Progressivism] is in the business of undermining and supplanting any and all human cultures which do not conform to the seventh-century Mohammed Model of human societal order. As determined by the Will of Allah in every particular, of course.
I do so hope, too, that "all the relics, large and small, in Egypt are protected by someone."
One thing that human history tells you: When you forget the past, it's difficult to discern a living future. And so, the default position becomes an historical past that no one now living remembers. Certainly not in a way that anyone now living has actually learned anything about in, say, the public schools. And so we humans get to repeat the history of which we seem to be deliberately ignorant, now and forever, one more time....
Thanks, CG!
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